At The Threshold of Memory
New and Selected Poems
Marjorie Agosin

Edited by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman

$18.00 320 pages ISBN 1-893996-62-X

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This large, bilingual collection contains more than twnety years of poetry, including new work, arranged by themes fundamental to Agosin's artistic and
critical oeuvre. Her rich Eastern European and Latin American heritage, her experiences in exile, and her profound humanistic vision all play a role as she
writes about ancestors, women, children, the poor, and the disinherited. Despite the difficult material, Agosin expresses a need to rejoice in life and to believe in the possibility of change. Always searching
for life's bare essentials, often in a spare language that reveals the common threads that unite us all, Agosin explores such diverse landscapes to "make beauty and order out of chaos and pain."

Marjorie Agosin is well-known as a poet, writer, critic, and human rights activist. She is editor of the critically acclaimed Secret Weavers Series of Latin American Women's writing published by White Pine Press. Agosin is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Her published work includes: Ashes of Revolt, A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile, An Absense of Shadows, and Happiness.

"Marjorie Agosin is one of the most lyrical and
refined voices in Latin America."
-Claribel Alegria

"Agosin's poetic language engages the reader in a
mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile."
-Isabel Allende

"Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to
transport us to the center of her humane and human
vision."
-Julia Alvarez

"Her poetry vibrates with electricity and compassion
for those who cannot speak for themselves. She
captures the soul of the lost and helpless."
-Liv Ullmann